January 03, 2007

Every two weeks, the art forum at He-Man.org holds an character re-design challenge. The subject is almost always an obscure character so as to inspire a bit more creativity. This particular sketch of mine is the first piece of art that I posted in the forums (this was just a few weeks ago, in mid-December). You can see my post here. The whole thread is here, and the voting thread (where members of the forum decide which re-design they like best) is here--my entry landed in 3rd. A bronze isn't too shabby, right?

Dree Elle is the girlfriend of Orko, from the He-Man cartoon. And if you don't know who Orko is, I honestly don't know what to do with you. Fine, fine, you can read about Orko here. Anyways, Dree Elle is basically a female version of Orko, but she's more competent, and she has sexy bedroom eyes. Frankly, I think she's got it going on, girlfriend. *snap*

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My version of Dree Elle has just a few modifications--I swapped the colors around a bit, making her gown lighter than her hood rather than vice versa, and added some bracelets and gold trim on her cuffs. The purpose of the shawl/cape was to give her better defined shoulders, and I changed her scarf to a veil so that we could see the silhouette of her slender neck. I felt that this emphasized her femininity just a touch, so that she wouldn't just look like Orko in drag. As for the caption, Dree Elle and Orko both belong to the Trollan race. And apparently, I was mistaken in hyphenating "Dree Elle," which is actually making my borderline OCD brain a bit crazy.

Fun Fact: The original title for the this post was "Nowadays everybody wanna talk like they got something to say/But nothin comes out when they move they lips/Just a bunch of gibberish/And m*********s act like they forgot about Dre (Elle)"